Rick,
I checked some of my timetables and found the following.
1905 timetable
train 41 - Puget Sound Express (westbound)
no number- Southeast express (eastbound)
1926 timetable
train 41 - Puget Sound Limited (trains 41,42 connect to NP)
train 42 - Mississippi Valley Limited
train 43 - Billings Express (also listed as "Great Northern Express")
Train 44 - Southeast Express (trains 43,44 connect to GN Orient Express)
1932 timetable
Numbers only no names
1938 timetable
train 41 - The General Custer
train 42 - The Adventureland
train 43 - The Adventureland
Train 44 - The General Custer
1946 timetable
train 41 - No name
train 42 - The Adventureland
train 43 - The Adventureland
Train 44 - No name
Ken Martin
Rick Mills wrote:
>
> I would like to enlist the help of the group on a question. I am looking for
> names assigned over the years to Q Trains 41, 42, 43 and 44 between St.
> Louis, Lincoln, and Billings. I have some of the names so far, but I assume
> there must be more.
>
> The names I have confirmed now are:
>
> Billings Express
> The Adventureland
> The Mississippi Valley Limited
> The General Custer
>
> I know there was a counterpart 42 or 44 to the Custer, but I cannot
> find/remember the Sioux Chief's name (either Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse?).
>
> Any imput with number, name, and dates of operation of the various trains
> would be greatly appreciated. I am working on a new edition of my book
> (Making the Grade - a century of Black Hills Railroading) which was published
> in 1985.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rick Millss
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